Increases in salary per industry

[smb3]

I was just reading another thread on accounting job stuff and there was some thread with regard to software development dev stuff ... was interested in 2 things ... how things start off in the respective fields and how the increases measure up as you move along your career in your path. So there seems to be a bunch of fields which includes

* Accounting
* Engineering (add your branch to be specific)
* Software Development
* Law
* Whatever else i missed

The idea is to make a comparison of how different industries start off and then as your career grows how the increase in salaries adjusts with it. The more detail you can add is better, but if you uncomfortable with values then percentage increases are fine as well.

So far from what I've gathered:

* Accounting starts off not so high but increases steadily with articles ... when you become a CA then you get quite a nice salary?
* Engineering has a high starting salary but the increases arent that big, as soon as you rack up experience then you get some pretty big increases?
* Software devs seem to increase very rapidly in the beginning ... but after maybe 5-7 or so years you have to either go into management or start your own place?
[I fall into this category (Bsc Comp Sci Hons), I was one of those with a low starting salary (I think some of my complaints are still archived here ... lol ... but after like 4 years I managed to more than double my grad salary)]
* Law I have no idea (probly also increases with articles until you reach a state?)

There are obviously exceptions to the convention so those are welcomed as well ... I guess this will also benefit those making career choices as to what to expect in salary as well (not that it's very very important but I guess its a factor for some)

 

[UnUnOctium]

* Accounting starts off not so high but increases steadily with articles ... when you become a CA then you get quite a nice salary?
* Engineering has a high starting salary but the increases arent that big, as soon as you rack up experience then you get some pretty big increases?
* Software devs seem to increase very rapidly in the beginning ... but after maybe 5-7 or so years you have to either go into management or start your own place?
[I fall into this category (Bsc Comp Sci Hons), I was one of those with a low starting salary (I think some of my complaints are still archived here ... lol ... but after like 4 years I managed to more than double my grad salary)]
* Law I have no idea (probly also increases with articles until you reach a state?)

You've got a very good idea of it there. Law is very similar to accounting, except they only take 2-3 years for articles and once they're done they make pretty good money.

 

[Icarium]

Software development. As you've said, it starts low, increases very quickly for a few years before leveling off to CPI. I earn 9 times what I started out at 10 years ago, with the bulk of that coming in the first few years.

 

[Lupus]

Software development. As you've said, it starts low, increases very quickly for a few years before leveling off to CPI. I earn 9 times what I started out at 10 years ago, with the bulk of that coming in the first few years.

Difference is things almost cost 5 times as much as they did 9 years ago :-D, I only earn about 5 times more then I did back then. CPI has been the excuse for the last 4 years.

 

[HavocXphere]

You've got a very good idea of it there. Law is very similar to accounting, except they only take 2-3 years for articles and once they're done they make pretty good money.

Accounting is also 3 years articles. In total you're looking at 7 years for accounting and 6 for law. Not 100% sure about the law one though.

They starting avg salary for law is worse than accounting though. Heard some horror stories there. But much wider variance, so I'm sure there are lots of people coining it there too.